Sash-holding device for windows.



0. IVI. EDWARDS.

SASH HOLDING DEVICE FOR WINDOWS.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 27. 1910.

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SASH-HQLDING- DEVICE FOR WINDOWS.

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Application liled October 27, 1910. Serial No. 589,313.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, OLIVER Envol-Ros,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Syracuse, county of Onondaga, and State of New York, have invented certain new lmprovements 1n Sash-Holding Devices for Windows, oi which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the drawing accompanying and'forming a part of thesame.

The invention relates to sash holders or sash holding devices and their application to Windows for holding the sashes therein.

The object oi my invention is to provide a simple, cheap and improved sash holder or holding device adapted to be used on eitherthe right or left hand Stiles of the,

sash singly to lock or hold the .sash against rattling and opening or closing movement, and the invention consists in the combination of the parts or -devices hereinafter set forth and particularly pointed out Iin the v claims hereunto annexed and forming a part ci' this specilication.

Lilie letters ci reference, Wherever they tion partly in full lines; Fig. 3 illustrates the sash holder or holding device seen in Figs. l' and 2 on an enlarged scale With portions ci the casing thereof removed to better illustrate the construction oi? the mov- -able parts of the holder. Fig. a is a transverse sectional view taken on the plane of a horizontal line lextending/fthrough the sash. holder in Fig. 2 and showing particularly holding members.

A represents tue mounted. The casing Eis provided with a l cover or part c which is removable from the main portion oi'lthe casing and Which,

frame of the Window, B* 'the' sash movable in the guidejvay/ of the frame C and the glass.

when in place holds the movable portions of the sash holder in proper Working relation to one another and the casing. The movable holding members l ol', are pivotally mounted in the casing E, as shown, and they are preferably provided with rounded beveled surfaces 71, L, respectively, and also with linger or thumb pieces z' e", respectively, by which such movable holding members are moved out of holding position when the sash is to be moved in the guideway for opening or closing the Window. llfhese holding members cl d" are eecentrically pivoted in the casing -so that `when they are operated by grasping the linger pieces z' z", such 'linger pieces are moved toward each other, the beveled roundedportions i h', being thereby moved out of their holding positions relatively to the Window frame or to a series of projections 7c and recesses lc formed upon a strip Kg' preferably mounted on the Window frame, the projections and recesses being preferably so proportioned that the holding members, as o d', when in the holding position, Will be received by adjacent recesses With a projection intermediate oi the holding members. These recesses and projections are preferably so formed that one of the holding members Will be received by one recessand the other member by another recess, the intermediate projection and those adjacent and next to the members Z d', forming abutments against which suchemov- .able'fmember-s, as d al", abut and hold the sash against movement in the opening and closing directions, one member, as d, hold- 1 ing the sash in one direction and the-other member, as al', holding the sash against movement in the other direction. This will ,bethe case Whether such holding members /o'f the sash holder be provided -With the rounded beveled surfaces or not. When such /eccentrically pivotedmembers d d', are pro- `the bevel of the recesses and also {ott-:hef-

l .vhich the sash is forced by the action of the each or' these holding spring or springs are so arranged relatively beveled rounded surface, as above explained. These holdingmembers Z d', of the sash holder are movable independently of each other out of their holding positions by the hand of the 'operator and are moved into such holding positions by springs J, preferably formed from a single piece of material so shaped as to have tvvo similar portions j j', respectively, to engage with the holding members, d d, as shown, or otherwise as desired. As shown such portions have tivo points of engagement by which each holding member is moved by the tension of' such portions of the spring or springs in directions to lock or hold the sash in the frame. These portions, as j j', of the to the holding members it that the finger pieces thereof are moved away from one another as such holding' members are moved into the holding positions. These portions j j', when formed as shown, are preferably made to engage with the holding members la it axially of the pivots onv which such members turn and also adjacent tothe linger pieces ff o", respectively. As here shown, members, as d d', is provided with a hub portion and one portion of the spring or springs J' is received by each of such hub portions being coiled around the same axially of the pivots on which the holding,- members are mounted. These holding -members (Z d', are herein shown as abutting against the end portions of the casing lil adjacent to the finger pieces thereof, so as to limit the movement of such .finger pieces in theholding direction of movement.

When the holder D is lin the position seen in Fig. l, the movable member d thereof is in engagement With the frame of the Window and any force applied to move the sash upwardly is resisted by such holding member mounted upon its pivot and, if moved suiliciently, abutting against the upper end portion of' the casing F.. To free suchsash holder from the holdingl action of the member al such member must be moved out of engagement with the frame of the Window, `which is done by moving the nger piece toward the finger piece i at 'the opmeines posit-e end portion of theholder. In lile manner the member d', 1s 1n engagement with the frame of the Window and resistsv the movement of the sash in a downward directionA until such member d is moved out of holding `position by moving, the linger piece el toward the finger piece z' at the upper end of such holder. 0f course, if projections and recesses are employed on the frame, as shown in Figs. l and 2, the movement of such holding members, as d d', must be suliicient for their holding surfaces to pass clear of the projection, as le, When the sash is to be moved for opening or closing the window. lf .such projections and recesses be not employed, then the movement of such members Will be only suliicient to free the sash from the frictional holding action of the rounded beveledv surfaces upon the coacting surface ofthe WindowT frame, as is the case in many constructions of Window fixtures novv in quite extensive reason of there being two holding members, as d d', for each holding device or holder and such members moving in the directions herein shown, the holders are reversible and can be used on either the right hand stile of the sash, as shown in Figs. l andi/3, or upon the left hand stile as desired, the action being identically the same in either case, there being one holding member to resist the up- Ward movement of the sash and also one member to resist the downward movement of the sash.

l/Vhat l claim as new is:

The combination with a Window frame provided with a plurality of cut-outs having beveled faces, of a sash holder comprising' a pair or' spring pressed levers pivoted to the sash contiguous to each other on parallel axes and having eccentrically arranged peripheral and beveled cam faces comp'lemental to the beveled faces of the cutouts and. curving about the axes of levers,-the leverslluieing arranged to operate inopposite direction, for the purpose specified.

.ULVER M. EDWARDS.

illitnesses:

G. G. Norms, NELLm I. Gimeno.

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